Stuffed Crust Pizza
Every 4 weeks I have to work the "late" shift at my work, which means you have to work a 4 hour shift on Saturday. Of course paying overtime is unheard of, so instead we only work 4 hours on Friday- 2 to 6. It's nice because it goes by really fast and you have the whole morning to do whatever.
The past two late shifts I've worked I've tried something new with my Friday mornings off. I heard of this concept called "being constructive with your time" and I thought I'd check it out. Normally, a Friday off would have resulted in me sleeping in too late, eating breakfast and surfing the internet in my pajamas until about 11 or 12 then laying in bed reading a book for another hour or so then jumping in the shower and racing to work to get there on time. Not that those days aren't needed and well earned for many people and we all deserve them, but I am tired of feeling like a sloth and letting my mornings slip away with nothing to show for it.
This morning I got up when Jim left for work, ate breakfast, washed some dishes, made pizza dough, washed two loads of laundry, worked out, showered, punched down my pizza dough for it's second rise, drove out to the pet food store for cat food, came home, made banana walnut muffins as a house warming present for my sister-in-law, made pesto, prepped the pizza, Jim came home for lunch and we noshed, got some materials together for a project for a craft swap on the Vegan Freaks forum and went to work. Whew! When I got to work I wanted to take a nap!
This pizza is stuffed with my sundried-tomato pesto. After stuffing the crust I added some tomato sauce (I haven't made my own yet. I buy this premade stuff from Trader Joe's that'd dee-lish), little blobs of pesto, sauteed mushrooms and some black olives, on Jim's half. Mmm, it was good and there were leftovers for dinner! I always make my pizzas on a pizza stone, the end results are amazingly better than a pan and it cooks up from raw dough to crisp-to-perfection in about 6 minutes. Nothing beats that!
I'll be posting the pesto recipe in the recipes section.
Now I'm off to bed where visions of pizza pies will dance through my head.
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By the way, thank you for not requiring people to type in those unreadable letters to post. For anyone older with middle aged eyesight, that's tough to do.
I hope that I won't have to put that on. Sometimes I can't tell what the letters are, so it has nothing to do with age. As long as I don't start getting solicitations and junk like that it should be fine.
How timely...I was just thinking of making a pesto pizza! Yours looks delicious!
The recipe's up!
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